Coach Dan Hartleb from the University of Illinois baseball team is our guest this week on Baseball Zealot Radio. A word about Coach Hartleb… usually when I interview someone “important”, I get a little nervous. One sentence from Coach Hartleb and he put me at ease. He seems like such…
Kudos to a reader of the blog who pays a lot of attention to the transaction logs. He noticed that two days ago, former Illini star Dusty Bensko signed with the Windy City Thunderbolts of the Frontier League. Here is the roster for the Thunderbolts team. In 2005, his senior…
In the dugout, Illini shortstop Shawn Roof can never stop talking. Fortunately for us, the same was true when Baseball Zealot Radio interviewed him for our latest show. Shawn had plenty to say. Shawn talked about the Illini’s chances for 2007 and what it was like growing up around ballplayers…
The University of Illinois baseball team got a boost when Casey Crosby signed a letter of intent with them. Crosby, a pitcher from Elburn, IL, was ranked #1 in the state by the Truth Prep Baseball Report. “I’m extremely excited by the addition of Casey Crosby to our 2007 recruiting…
Got a chance to catch some good Illini action over the weekend. And no, I don’t mean the Illinois/Iowa football game. I did watch that on TV. Ugh. i did catch a couple games of the Illini baseball Blue-Orange series. For those not familiar, it is essentially a split squad…
Heads up for baseball fans in the Champaign-Urbana area! The Illini baseball team will be playing its annual Blue and Orange Series for the next few days. Scheduled times are: Friday, Sept. 22 – 4:15 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 23 – one hour after the end of the football game Sunday,…
Mike Rohde The University of Illinois baseball players have begun a blog of sorts. The best way to find them is to go to the U of I baseball page and find the entries from there. At the very least, we can find out what going on with the team.…
I got an email from a reader inquiring of the goings-on of former Illini Dusty Bensko. The writer noted that Dusty was cut from Independent League and wondered if this was the end of the road for his career. After a bit of searching, I found that Bensko will be…
I know it’s only been a few days but I thought I’d check in on how former Illini and newly acquired Cub catcher Chris Robinson was faring in Daytona. Well, he’s already making his presence known. In his first game at Daytona, “the new guy” had 3 hits and 3…
A while back I posted that I got an email from Illini shortstop Shawn Roof while he was in North Carolina playing in a college summer league. In his email, he mentioned that he was trying to convince his coach to play him in all nine positions in one game.…